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Zero Waste Event & Market Operations

01 Zero Waste Event & Market Operations · 11 edit slice
4
orgs
11
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 11 activities — AZULITA PROJECT, PRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET, Good Market, ELITE CATERING & EVENT PROFESSIONALS and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Crowdsourced Quality Assurance", run by 1 orgs.
AZULITA PROJECT and PRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

1% for the Planet 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff 1
Foundation
City of Scottsdale 1
Earned
GeoFamily Foundation 1
Foundation
Mountain Sports 1
Corporate
U.S. Forest Service 1
Earned
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Crowdsourced Quality Assurance
3
Open Information for Trust
3
Safety-First Operations
3
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

#PlasticFreePresident campaign Partner
shared by 1 org
1% for the Planet Network
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Farmers Market Nutrition Program Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Science Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Worm Farm Partner
shared by 1 org
Ashoka Network
shared by 1 org
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Network
shared by 1 org
B Lab Network
shared by 1 org
Bat Conservation International Partner
shared by 1 org
Beyond Plastic Partner
shared by 1 org
Big Brothers/Big Sisters Partner
shared by 1 org
C3 Presents Partner
shared by 1 org
COSV Network
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 AZULITA PROJECT INC AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 PRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET INC AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 Good Market Inc AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 ELITE CATERING & EVENT PROFESSIONALS AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

1.0M
Pounds distributed
from 2 orgs
46
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs